Well, only to a degree. In the latest Twig releases there are a number of functions or filters whose logic should really be in the controllers and not in Twig.PHP is a template engine, but the quality of extensions/themes you get by using Twig improves. Twig forces you to stop doing hacks to your theme views (Go ahead and check old OpenCart themes)
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Because people didn't know how to use them back then and most still don't know how to use them now. In addition, it reduces the error triggers whenever an issue is addressed on screen while even forum supporters could propose to disable these messages. Which means, in either scenarios, whether the logs are disabled or the TWIG files being tweaked all over the template still won't show the error messages on anyhow - unless using a TWIG debugger to see the error messages specifically from the TWIG Engine.
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The standard Symfony Twig as used in OpenCart simply ignores errors for missing or wrong variables. This is really a bad practice!
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Whether the right or the wrong use of the variables, most of the people still don't know what to do with them without requesting assistance especially on production servers.
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I understand the sentiment. However, Twig makes the code more readable and cleaner. Take a look at a simple foreach loop with PHP/HTML:
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<table>
<?php foreach($array as $key=>$value): ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $key; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</table>
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<table>
{% for key in users|keys %}
<tr>
<td>{{ key }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
Sorry, but wtf - why should an enduser "understand" the code?rjcalifornia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:33 pmI understand the sentiment. However, Twig makes the code more readable and cleaner.
He wants to have only an always working store.
And developers should know their job, no matter if php or/and twig or something else.
At the end, the code should be fast to parse, loading sites therefore fast.
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While speed optimization via template is imminent for developers, the point on using the TWIG Engine also reflects on web design which does not specifically reflect on PHP languages.OSWorX wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:45 pmSorry, but wtf - why should an enduser "understand" the code?rjcalifornia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:33 pmI understand the sentiment. However, Twig makes the code more readable and cleaner.
He wants to have only an always working store.
And developers should know their job, no matter if php or/and twig or something else.
At the end, the code should be fast to parse, loading sites therefore fast.
Dedication and passion goes to those who are able to push and merge a project.
Regards,
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Your example actually demonstrates why Twig has a poorer, not better syntax. Twig is not based on proper parser technologies because of the lack of a clean underlying Twig language syntax (e.g. it's not a clean LALR(1) grammar). Just look at the recently introduced Twig arrow functions as an example to see how messy its syntax truly is!I understand the sentiment. However, Twig makes the code more readable and cleaner. Take a look at a simple foreach loop with PHP/HTML:
OSWorX is right here: The template rendering engine needs to be fast, not so bloated or slow like Symfony Twig.
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Just to let everyone know: We recently released OpenTwig, as an alternative to the Symfony Twig. It directly translates a twig template with the given data variables into the final HTML, at a fast near-native PHP speed. It's already running on a number of live websites, and is available from opentwig.org under the free Common Clause license.
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I just started with oc 4 after years of 2x twig seemed a pain looking in but its not that hard, i agree that the only real benefit to going twig is to block you being able to write php in the template file, which innevitably happens.
Performance improvements vary, depending on OpenCart version, PHP version, and twig-templates being used, from around 20% to 50% faster speeds, or sometimes even more.
As regards implemented features in OpenTwig: See the documentation for more details. We are running several websites, with different themes, just fine using OpenTwig.
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My test results at Macbook Pro with M1 Max, PHP 8.0.8 with Opcache, measuring loader->view() time
Opencart 4 default homepage
Stock TWIG: 0.028 sec
OpenTwig: 0.109 sec
OpenTwig in this test is 3 times slower than the stock TWIG. Am I doing something wrong?
Also, theoretically - how can a parser written in PHP be faster than PHP parsing written in C?
P. S. Journal 3.2 failed with OpenTwig (
Opencart 4 default homepage
Stock TWIG: 0.028 sec
OpenTwig: 0.109 sec
OpenTwig in this test is 3 times slower than the stock TWIG. Am I doing something wrong?
Also, theoretically - how can a parser written in PHP be faster than PHP parsing written in C?
P. S. Journal 3.2 failed with OpenTwig (
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